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Start-ups, venture capital investors, beware of this trap.

Submitted by PaulRen on Wed, 26/07/2023 - 11:11am

Here I discuss an often hidden risk in so called venture capital, or start-up's, private equity investments. I call it a "stealth risks" which can emerge in many successful starts-ups. Yet, hardly ever mentioned.  Bewared.   (This article has nothing to do with Thai stocks.)

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My El Camino Hike -from Porto Portugal, to Santiago Galicia, Spain.

Submitted by PaulRen on Sat, 17/06/2023 - 11:58am

So I went on the El Camino Hike from Portugal to Santiago, Galicia, Spain.

As many of you here know I endured a heart ailment...

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US in a long secular decline ?

Submitted by PaulRen on Thu, 23/02/2023 - 9:12am

We usually like what we know while shying away from what we don't know much about.

One of the things I notice again and again at the web site LinkedIn is how US centric fund/money and Swiss banks are...posting at nauseam around this same theme, bull and bear...

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Inflation for now likely peaking.

Submitted by PaulRen on Sun, 24/07/2022 - 1:53pm

On inflation for now likely peaking.  Most commentators mention nothing, nor quote anybody on non-precious metal prices. Why?  Yet many experts usually look at metal prices as a leading indicator of the commodities ​cycle.  At present Copper and many metal prices are in a moving downtrend. Nickel is declining even...

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Dire times coming, lead by the US/EU.

Submitted by PaulRen on Sun, 12/06/2022 - 8:31pm

Dire times in US/EU coming which will bring much new suffering.  US Treasury Secretary Yellen and the Fed blew it, and should be fired? But doing so would only alarm markets more.

We are at a critical & dire time in the US economic development at present.  This...

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Keep slowly accumulating gold, is my view. Yet again below $1900.

Submitted by PaulRen on Sat, 12/06/2021 - 11:18am

Over the years I here mentioned gold -on occasion, to accumulate.  Now again.

In years bygone I here mentioned ever so often my view to accumulate gold, slowly...it was one idea/alternative to park some profits taken on Thai stocks.  (I always viewed at least some profit taking whenever any stock rises...

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My first and likely rare comment here on Crypto/Bitcoin.

Submitted by PaulRen on Sun, 04/04/2021 - 10:39am

My first and likely rare comment here on Crypto/Bitcoin.

Crypto/bitcoin and its various derivatives have had a tremendous price run up, and then some. If you ask me today the graph on Bitcoin (just now trading around $57,200) looks tired and could well be making a...

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The vicissitudes-intricacies of interpretation -and many traps.

Submitted by PaulRen on Wed, 18/11/2020 - 10:59am

The intricacies of loose language interpretation and the known and unknown traps/difficulties this represent.

Residing in Thailand for so many years investing/building/living and more I often endured the difficulty in language and interpreting at many different levels.  Just to define terminology, translation means written -and interpreting...

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Reverse Triangle

Submitted by PaulRen on Fri, 20/07/2018 - 2:54pm

Cultural differences exist everywhere and it often requires people to get "out of the woods, to see the forest".

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